Visitors Find 'Great Man' Ignored ; a Sister-City Delegation Thinks Edward Morse Should Be As Famous Here As He Is in Japan.

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When Shinagawa was looking for a sister city, it naturally looked to the hometown of one of its most eminent American visitors: Edward Sylvester Morse.

The Portland native is known as the father of Japanese archaeology and a preserver of pre-modern Japan. Middle-schoolers throughout that country know his name, even though his celebrity does not extend to their counterparts in Maine.

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Visitors Find 'Great Man' Ignored ; a Sister-City Delegation Thinks Edward Morse Should Be As Famous Here As He Is in Japan.

This week, a delegation from Shinagawa - a ward of Tokyo with a population of 340,000 - is in Portland to mark the 25th anniversary of the sister-...

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